I am looking to get the best TV that can fit in the space I have, and from the reviews I'm reading, it appears that the Pioneer Kuro PRO-150FD is it. (I haven't seen one at a retailer near me, so I can't verify this.) The problem is that I only have 58" of space (horizontally) and the Kuro Pro-150FD squeezes in at 57 and 15/16", so it's extremely tight -- and even then only if I don't use the detachable speakers. My question, which I can't really determine from the manual online or the spec sheet, is whether there are any other speakers on the TV itself or if I'd need to connect it to a separate set of speakers. I believe the answer is that I'd need to connect to an external set of speakers, but I just wanted to confirm that, by removing the detachable speakers, the TV would be 100% silent. Is that the case?

yes.

Thanks. And darn...